What does cloning a GitHub repository mean?

Asked 2011-02-28T14:16:27.340

I am trying to integrate Facebook with my app. I read this on developers.facebook.com:

Install XCode

Install Git

Clone the GitHub repository with this command:
git clone git://github.com/facebook/facebook-ios-sdk.git

I have installed XCode and Git.

What does it mean to clone a GitHub repository and how can I do that?

swift xcode git github git-clone

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Cloning a git repository is basically downloading a code base to your own machine, so you can use, edit... this code base.

For doing it is as easy as creating a folder where you want to store this code, and then from the terminal execute from this folder:

git clone git://github.com/facebook/facebook-ios-sdk.git .

answered 2011-02-28T14:19:59.807